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jmra wrote:I'm not sure what you are trying to say or the point you are trying to make. My point is very simple, legal or not it is not only stupid to carry a long gun into Walmart, it is also detrimental to the cause of advancing gun rights at both the state and federal level.

I'm saying everyone has their own opinion. And that’s all they are; opinions.

1. Long guns in public bad, hand guns OK. Your opinion (and many others) and y’all are entitled to it.
2. Any gun in public is OK. My opinion (and many others) and we’re entitled to it.
3. Any gun in public is bad. Some people’s opinion and they’re entitled to it. However, I firmly believe that the 2nd Amendment trumps their opinion.

Apples and oranges only from the standpoint of it being an EBR as EBR’s do carry a negative connotation in some circles. So make it a Remington 700 or a Mossberg 500. To me a gun is a gun. I can say that I’ve known people that couldn’t care less about a long gun (EBR’s excepted perhaps) that can’t stand the sight of an “evil handgun the only purpose of which is to kill people”. Very strange to my way of thinking but to each his own.

Personally I couldn’t care less what anyone carries or how they carry it up to and including a Ma Duce over their shoulder. But there are those that disagree to the finer points and therein lies the rub.

jmra wrote:Sorry, but the guy in Walmart with the AR does bother me. Why? Because he is crying out for attention and people who cry out for attention eventually do irrational things. Please don't tell me it has anything to do with 2A enlightenment because it doesn't. There are much better ways to do that than walk thru Walmart causing a scene. This guy is a bomb waiting to go off.
Even if he never goes off, he is doing nothing to help get Real OC passed in Texas and doing everything to get what we do have taken away.

Pardon me if I play the devil’s advocate here.

Change the first line from:

“Sorry, but the guy in Walmart with the AR does bother me.”

to:

“Sorry, but the guy in Walmart with the exposed handgun does bother me.”


You then have the exact same argument that the anti-gun/anti-open carry folks are saying now. I have absolutely no desire to OC but if that’s what you want it should be your right to do so. My only concern is when Suzie soccer mom gets her panties all twisted up and starts screeching to the manager. Right now there isn't a 30.06 sign in this area that I have seen or heard of and I would hate to see that change. Other than that concern I really don’t have a dog in this hunt.